Hosea 4:2

In 11 translations

BSB

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

KJV

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.blood: Heb. bloods

WEB

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

ASV

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

LSV

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, || And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, || And blood has touched against blood.

YLT

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery — have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

DBY

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, — they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

DRC

Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

GNV

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

JPS

Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.

LXXE

Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

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WLC

אָלֹ֣ה וְכַחֵ֔שׁ וְרָצֹ֥חַ וְגָנֹ֖ב וְנָאֹ֑ף פָּרָ֕צוּ וְדָמִ֥ים בְּדָמִ֖ים נָגָֽעוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀρὰ, καὶ ψεῦδος, καὶ φόνος καὶ κλοπὴ, καὶ μοιχεία κέχυται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ αἵματα ἐφʼ αἵμασι μίσγουσι.

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• Hosea 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
• Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
• Jeremiah 5:26–27For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
• Hosea 7:1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
• Jeremiah 7:6–10if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land…
• Jeremiah 5:7–9“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. They are well-fed, lusty…
• Jeremiah 23:10–14For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused. “For both prophet and priest are ungodly;…
• Ezekiel 22:2–13“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own…
• Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
• Hosea 7:3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
• Hosea 12:14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.
• Hosea 5:2The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.
• Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
• Zechariah 7:9“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

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